Hans Wrote:
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> Hermione Wrote:
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> > Hans Wrote:
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> >
> > ...
> >
> > > How popular were these snails for eating and
> I
> > > wonder which type they were?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I'm not too sure I'm really all that keen on
> > snails. The last time I had them they were
> > covered in garlic butter, and seemed a bit
> rubbery
> > ...
> >
> > But maybe the AE had a different cooking
> method!
> >
>
> When I worked in Germany I had a direct rail link
> to Paris and use to go there regularly the train
> would come just after 5 and we would get in to
> ther Gare de l'Est around 11 PM. At that time a
> restaurant near the Opera use to have a special of
> 24-36 escargot with a half baguette for a song
> after 10PM. They were not rubbery.
>
> I would suspect they ate snails. There was also
> suspected Pharaoh by the name of 'small snail'?
> mentioned in the tomb U-j of King Scorpion I at
> Umm el-Qa'ab.
>
> [www.um.es]
>
> Surprise surprise the hieroglyph looks like a
> snail! On page 120

Thank you.

I did find this;

[www.google.com]

I suppose there's no reason they wouldn't be eating little tiny snails but I would expect them to eat them shells and all. Of course when properly prepared the meat might be easily sucked out of the shell and it discarded. Perhaps the snails might have been food for something else that the builders used or ate and could be indigenous to the site during wet periods. There are many possibilities and they depend on the specific species.

Knowing the type of snail would be helpful in determining why there were shells discovered in "clean sand". "Clean sand" might simply be sand that has had organic material washed out of it over thousands of years.

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